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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday on this program — darn it, darn it, darn it. Cookie, could you find the sound bite from Jake Tapper that I aired yesterday<\/a>? Because we aired the sound bite, and I analyzed it, and Jake went to Twitter and said that I was misrepresenting what he had said. I do not purposely misrepresent or lie. I don\u2019t see any value in it. I\u2019m not a politician that wants to get somewhere by lying. I\u2019m not gonna have any credibility if everybody thinks all I\u2019m doing is lying about stuff. That was not my intention. I don\u2019t want to be wrong. And Jake says I was misinterpreting what he said. So I want to get the sound bite and play it and I\u2019ll revisit my interpretation. <\/p>\n

But he sent my brother<\/a> a couple of tweets and he sent an e-mail to H.R., trusted, loyal chief of staff, and said a lot of people were being unfair and calling him an Obamaite or some such thing, but that my interpretation was wrong. He allowed with H.R. that he might not have been clear in his comments but he felt bad because he was hearing from a lot of you accusing him of being an Obamaite because of what I said, and he doesn\u2019t want to be thought of as an Obamaite. Okay, so here\u2019s the sound bite. Here\u2019s the sound bite. I don\u2019t have the transcript in front of me now, doesn\u2019t matter. I think it was on CNN, Piers Morgan, and I think the question was why didn\u2019t the mainstream media cover Benghazi.<\/a> I think that\u2019s pretty much what it was. Let\u2019s listen.<\/p>\n

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TAPPER: As somebody who was covering the Benghazi story in the months leading up to the election, it was so politicized with the White House and the administration and the defensive crouch because they thought every word they said would be twisted and unfairly attacked and they didn\u2019t obviously want to interfere with a positive narrative about Al-Qaeda, and Republicans putting out conspiracy theories, some of them not rooted in any facts or evidence, that it was tough to report on this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Now, the way I interpreted that was, remember who Jake is, he\u2019s a White House reporter for ABC, and he\u2019s explaining why the Benghazi story was not interesting, why there was no news there, or why it wasn\u2019t covered. On the one hand, you had the administration, and they didn\u2019t want their positive narrative about Al-Qaeda being on the run, \u2019cause that\u2019s what the narrative was. <\/p>\n

Now, Jake doesn\u2019t say that. See, I\u2019m assuming. The White House narrative on Al-Qaeda was that Obama had \u2019em on the run. That\u2019s been the thing since the convention, since they got Osama Bin Laden. In fact, the president was saying it on the campaign trail. And Jake admits that the White House didn\u2019t want that narrative messed with, and they were very defensive about this. <\/p>\n

On the other side was the Republicans believing in a bunch of conspiracy theories that you couldn\u2019t believe in that weren\u2019t based in fact, so my interpretation was that since the White House didn\u2019t want their narrative tampered with and the Republicans didn\u2019t have one you could believe in, that there wasn\u2019t a story because who knew what really happened. <\/p>\n

Now, my critical interpretation of this was based on the fact of my understanding of journalism. My understanding of journalism is that it\u2019s not the role of any journalist to be concerned with carrying forward any politician\u2019s narrative, be it the White House or the Republicans. My admittedly old-fashioned interpretation of journalists is that they don\u2019t trust anybody; that they especially are suspicious of people with a lot of power; that they will speak truth to power; that their objective here is to make sure that people with power don\u2019t run roughshod over everybody. <\/p>\n

And what I heard him say here was he wanted to respect the White House narrative, which was a positive Al-Qaeda narrative, that they\u2019re on the run. Okay, we are sitting out here realizing, no, Al-Qaeda is not on the run. They did the attack. That was not a conspiracy theory. It was not a game. It was not a made up non-fact. It has been admitted to, and it was admitted to before the election by the State Department, by any number of government agencies. <\/p>\n

So the White House narrative was wrong. But, see, I interpreted Jacob Tapper as not caring whether the White House narrative was wrong. What he was concerned about was not displeasing them. That\u2019s what I heard him say, and so that\u2019s essentially what I said yesterday, which resulted in a number of you tweeting him being critical of his comment there as I was. So he let us know that he didn\u2019t like it. He was unhappy with the response that my interpretation of his comment was creating, but I just want to specify again here that I can understand Jay Carney, the regime\u2019s flack, protecting the narrative. But I thought that Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, I thought these guys were to instinctively not trust it, particularly when there was news out there that Al-Qaeda\u2019s not on the run, they\u2019re building up, that they did the attack. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, Jacob also has a book. It\u2019s called The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor<\/a>. It explores the lives of troops, brave troops and their families, who toiled at a very vulnerable remote outpost 14 miles from the Pakistan border. That\u2019s why he\u2019s doing media appearances because he\u2019s written a book and it\u2019s apparently very supportive of these brave troops and their families. <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Snerdley is asking me, “Well, what is the right interpretation?” Let\u2019s play it again. I\u2019ll take a stab at the correct interpretation. My interpretation is what it is. And, again, my interpretation is rooted in what apparently is a misunderstanding of journalism, or journalists today. And, by the way, it\u2019s very helpful for me to learn this. <\/p>\n

Dana Bash and some others talking about McCain and Graham demanding a select committee to look into Benghazi, and Chuck Todd expressed sadness that they hijacked Obama\u2019s first press conference. He was in a great mood. He was gonna be cooperative. These guys come along and demand a select committee on Benghazi, and it made Obama mad, and it was unfortunate. So I didn\u2019t know that journalists chose sides. <\/p>\n

But, remember, it was some Democrat senator who said, “I can\u2019t wait for this. Too old white guys attacking a black woman,” Susan Rice. Well, clearly that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening here. There are people trying to get to the bottom what happened in Benghazi. We didn\u2019t make her UN ambassador; Obama did. It\u2019s not our fault or anybody else\u2019s fault that she\u2019s black, but is she immune from criticism because she\u2019s African-American? And I guess the answer is yes. But that\u2019s another thing. Here\u2019s Jake\u2019s CNN comment, Piers Morgan from two nights ago, again. <\/p>\n

TAPPER: As somebody who was covering the Benghazi story in the months leading up to the election, it was so politicized with the White House and the administration and the defensive crouch because they thought every word they said would be twisted and unfairly attacked and they didn\u2019t obviously want to interfere with a positive narrative about Al-Qaeda, and Republicans putting out conspiracy theories, some of them not rooted in any facts or evidence, that it was tough to report on this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So I guess the interpretation he wants is, here\u2019s an actual attack that killed four Americans and it\u2019s been so politicized that it\u2019s impossible to cover. And let\u2019s step back, it\u2019s impossible to cover because it\u2019s been so politicized. If that\u2019s the correct interpretation, what isn\u2019t? My God, the media has publicized every event in the campaign. How will this look for Obama? Will it hurt or help Obama\u2019s reelection. Not there are four dead Americans. I still don\u2019t know what conspiracy theories the Republicans were talking about are. Do you? <\/p>\n

No, seriously. Seriously. Oh, oh, that\u2019s right, there were two theories. One was the ambassador intended to get kidnapped in exchange for the blind sheik and the other one he was running guns to Syria. Okay, there were two wild theories, but those were fringe. Those were not the fundamental things that Republicans were saying. No, they weren\u2019t. They were not offered up by elected officials. Offered up by kooks, who knows? The Republican position on this was it was not a video; it was an Al-Qaeda attack and four Americans are dead. That\u2019s not kook fringe. Anyway, Jake\u2019s book is The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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